European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday March 16,1989 thousands of moslem ran . Stands behind the Toh Cen Tashkent . A sever Jil thousand moslem greeted the return of a 7th-Ccnlury Koran on tuesday with tears and cries of god is great in a display of religious Fervour Seldom seen in the officially atheist soviet Union. Crowds pressed in on a cordon of police and engulfed a half dozen believers who carried the holy Book on their Shoul Ders 1 so Yards from a religious Congress to the higher islamic Institute in Tash Kent the capital of Uzbekistan. One Young Man leaped from a Low porch Down to inc Koran As it was car ried through the courtyard. He touched his hands to his face in a sign of rever ence before inc crowd swallowed him up. Others pushed their Way to the 2-foot Square Book and grabbed frantically at inc Green pc Lect covering it. More than 100 Polacc Man on patrol did not Imer Fere.  " " god is great was shouted Over and Over along the Book s path and in the courtyard of the Institute and believers wiped tears from their eyes As they watched the Koran pass. Officials of the government s Council for religious affaire and the moslem religious Board for Central Asia and Kazakhstan said they could not recall such an outpouring of religious Fervour. This is our Faith. This is the Law.  be Mufti Mohammad adj Mam Jusupov stands behin the Lury Koran turned out tuesday to moslem  in Tashkent . Queen Elizabeth ii and family $466,800 pay increase is our truth Ibrahim Yusupov a Mem Ber of the crowd who came from South Ern Uzbekistan said ofic Book in an interview. The Uzbekistan government turned inc Koran of Caliph Osmin Over to mos Lem authorities on inc first Day of a iwo Day Congress thai eluded a new Mufti or religious Leader Tor predominantly mos Lem soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Mohamma Sadyk Mam Yusupov the 36-year-old Rector of the higher islamic Institute was proclaimed Mufti by a voice vote of the 375 delegates. He replaced Shamsuz Zinkhan Babak Han the hereditary Mufti who resigned in february after religious protests in which he was accused of corruption and ignorance of islam. Local believers say the ancient Book turned Over to religious authorities tues Day was one of several dictated by Caliph Osman. A close Follower of Mohammed in the years immediately following the founding of their religion. It was obtained by the czars hundreds of years ago and kept in their capital St. Petersburg now Leningrad after the 1917 bolshevik revolution it was transferred to a government museum in Tashkent it Likely was turned Over at the Start of. The Congress As a sign of official support for Mam Yusupov. Given London a Queen Elizabeth ii and her fam ily Tot a pay increase of 4.6 percent in tuesday s an Nual budget which was lower than inflation. The increase .at,1466,800 brought the total to. $10,54.000, and was too much for some labor party legislators whatever its relation to Llie Cost of living Tor the Royal family it looks As though Christmas has come Early labor member Mai Madden said in the House of commons. An increase of 4.6 percent for the civil list As the Royal allowances arc known compares Wilh annual inflation of 7.5 percent up from 3.3 percent a Brago members of the. Royal family arc paid for carrying out such official ditties As receiving ambassadors pet Scrimg awards opening hospitals visiting the armed Fortes and making foreign hours. Most of the Moncy goes to salaries  350 Royal philippine ship with 28 aboard believed sunk Manila Philippines a a Container ship with 28 filipino crewmen has been missing for five Dansand May have sunk m rough seas the coast guard reported tuesday coast guard spokesman la. Francisco Mendoza said the Loren a a 1,025-ton, incr Island Container vessel of inc Lorenzo shipping corp has been missing since  Agujar general manager of the shipping firm said the Lorton v had engine trouble while in route o the Southern port of Ili Gais 500 Miles Southeast of Manila and a second ship was sent to Tow the disabled cruel  nearest port the Tow line snapped when the ships encountered rough seas with 15-foot Waves and the Lorton v Dis appeared Agujar said he said several other company ships and a search plane were sent to inc area Althou a they spotted pieces of plywood a wooden cot and a table h could nol be determined if the debris was from the Lorton a Mendoza said the coast guard received a report tuesday of the missing ship and is conducting search operations. Household staff from private secretaries to Coachmen gardeners and window cleaners at Buckingham Palace and the other Royal residences. Queen Elizabeth Rich in in her own right will receive $7.96 million in the 1 989-90 fiscal year. Her 88-year-old Mother. Queen Mother Elizabeth will Sci $691,000, and Prince Philip Queen s husband will be paid $385,000. The Queen s youngest son. Prince Edward 25, who quit the Royal marines and now works As a production assistant for a theater company run by composer an Drew Lloyd Webber dots not gel a raise. He has received 134.200 year since 1982. Prince Charles heir to the Chr pc and his wife. Diana Are not on the list because he is Prince of Wales and lives on income from the duchy of Cornwall estates. Thai amounted to 12.4 million last year Stormy times on Sun r Aie swirling on the surface of the Sun As this photo Mph shows. Such solar storms can it Crale a Jolt on the Martli by Lri Henna electromagnetic disturbances that can overwhelm radio woes used by aircraft. The photo was made March 6 by the Mendon Obser tory in he sub Urb of Paris. The observations willbe visible until monday. World today radio free e u rope f in d s no evidence of jamming Munich West Germany a radio free Europe said tuesday that its engineers found no Indica Tion inc soviet Union had resumed jamming the Sta lion or its sister station radio Liberty to Block reports on demonstrations in the soviet  dissidents said monday hat radio Liberty broadcasts had been jammed by soviet authorities. Radio Liberty a sister solution of inc  radio free Europe broadcasts to the soviet Union while radio free Europe beams its programs to Llic Bailie Stales and the rest of Eastern  two stations based in Munich have combined management soviet dissidents said in Moscow on monday that radio Liberty s broadcasts were jammed to Block us reports on anti government demonstrations and arrests in Moscow Leningrad and two other soviet Cit the soviet Union stopped interfering with the broadcasts of radio Liberty and several Oiler foreign radio stations including West Germany s Deutsche. Welle and the voice of Israel on nov. 29, i98b. 50 years ago Hitler seized Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovakia a fifty years ago wednesday nazi troops invaded Czechoslovakia in what one historian says was an unavoidable Conse Quence of the West s abandonment of the nation and Adolf Hillert plan to conquer  september 1938, two of Czechoslovakia s allies Britain and France bowed to German pressure and agreed to Hitler s annexation of Czechoslovakia s German speaking sudetenland nearly one third of the nation s  Western Hopes that appeasement would Dis Suade Hitler from All out War on Eastern Europe ended when Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia on March 15,1939.less than half a car later hitlers army rolled across polish Borders and world War ii began. Swarm of mosquitoes fails jetliner s cockpit new Delhi India a swarms of mosquitoes invaded the cockpit of an Indian airlines plane at Calcutta Airport monday and delayed the flight for two hours news reports said  to United news of India and press Trust of India Airport authorities arranged to have the cock pit of the Boeing 737 cleared and the plane took off for the Eastern City of i Brugar 500 Miles Northeast of Calcutta "